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12 Jul, 2025

August’s Open Book Club: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

By |July 12th, 2025|Adults, Events, Library News, Open Book Club, Reader Services|

With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, ”Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else.”